thinking more about John and.... at the end of HtN when he was interogating Wake, she wanted him to say her name. "i'll be dammed if i pass up the chance to hear you speak the words" and "they're dead words, a human chain reaching back ten thousand years": Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity.
and then she asks him "how did they make you feel?" and of course, John deflects.
but that's Aotearoa's national anthem in te reo MÄori. and as we learn in NtN, John is Maori. that's his anthem. how must have that felt, to John? to hear his own anthem claimed by someone descended from the people who left his earth to die?
#god if i were john id be so fucking mad that this CHILD this infant this stupid baby has the guts to claim something she has#no context to understand#and of course after 10k years john YOU are the one doing colonialism please look in a mirror etc#john really is just so fucking fascinating#he says he doesnt care. he says it makes him feel sad (pathetic) bordering on funny but. john i dont believe you#john's anger is something we have only really seen once. but. yeah.
